All Modes EASY! | Guitar Lesson

In this lesson, I go over one of my favourite ways to play the modes on guitar. All you need to do is play the 1-2-4 fingering and slide it across in the right places & know how to line it up to get the desired mode.

[nhn]

i’m only 9 minutes in, yet i’m thoroughly convinced (once again) that joe is one the best guitar teachers on youtube, guitar & theory has NEVER seemed so easy to understand

[luckyl]

The best explanation on YouTube. Thank you

[keiferneverland]

The most effective tutorial on modes !

JUST AWESOME !!

[greggriffiths]

I just logged on to YouTube and this come up I had never learnt this awesome idea and lesson I'm so happy to learn this.

[michaelelwert]

One of the best lessons about how to use them in a practical way

[InsolentMusicalPeasant]

Best lesson on modes I've ever seen. Makes it all so much easier. Much appreciated!

[nickmendens]

That unlocked a lot of music theory! I watched this late last night and didn't even pick up the guitar. I did however take photos of the TV like an old man. I woke up this morning remembering the patterns with out having to look back. Great work!!

[leo_xatzi]

The easiest and most versatile way to look at it. Helped me a ton. Thank you so much!!

[m.vonhollen]

You should be able to play every mode, and every scale with a first finger start, with a pinky finger start, and with a start from one of the 2 middle fingers as the start. You should be able to do that as a one octave, two octave or a three octave scale. No limitations!

[BattousaiMLT]

Would be better to just take it a step further and rather than learning a shape and using it as a crutch, just learn the G major scale across the entire fretboard. Once you get used it just start at a different point of the scale and play each note G-> G =Ionian A->A= Dorian B-> B phrygian etc
G is a good starting point since it contains E Aeolian mode theres a ton of songs in E minor you can noodle to in order to familiarise yourself with the shapes. Once you do that you can do that for all the major keys. eventually through practice it "clicks" you will realise whatever mode youre in when improvising or thinking up of new lead lines you can basically use the shape of its parent scale to figure out new leads and phrases. your only work is emphasising the right notes to highlight the mode youre playing.

[martin]

Joe, set of so, so, following but round about the 10 minute mark, I went down the rabbit hole!!!! fifth string but playing the sixth etc or something like that. The assiciation of mode letters, positions and fretboard just overwhelmed me which was frustrating because you only used two finger patterns. I suppose if you 'know it', then it makes sense. Going to stick with just learning the patterns for now . . .

[martin]

PS, I did tick the like button and have subscribed - you've given me an itch, I now have to scratch 🤗

[imjonkatz]

YES! I haven't even watched the video yet and I know it's gonna be a masterpiece. Thank you for another lesson <3

[raymondalfons]

Wow, this is what i needed! Thanks a lot for this great lesson. 🙏🏽

[spaceboojum]

Yeah, great, if you want to play scales for solos. You would still need to memorise all the frets which correspond to the "pattern" if you want to jump around on the fretboard. The other thing that needs memorising is the starting point i.e. seven start points.

[YesItsReallyKeith]

slap me and wake me !! this is so cool !!

[akutube]

What are the practical applications to learning all this towards making music on the guitar? Thanks for the lesson even if it’s a bit over my head

[RickGtr]

So how many players are going to drop out of their pentatonic scale patterns and implement the above? I find most people will understand the message but applying it in the real world is a different story. Most guitar solos are based around the pentatonic scale pattern in pop, rock, and country. Finding the notes in the pentatonic fingerings and understanding how to respond to the harmony (that dictates the mode) is more useful. Jazz players may actually use these scales but most others will not know how to use them when improvising.

[tomekmarcin]

That is by far the least intimidating lesson on modes. Thanks for sharing this. It would be great if you could explain how to use this with scales so say E#m and you want to use Phrygian sound. This is what I can’t get my head around.

[johnCjr]

I don’t know modes came from a sax background so how about a video with just major and minor and blues scales. Im used to starting on the root note for scales ?? 😊